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Microchipped her. three months after she ran off animals found the dog 400 miles away. shes back home but her journey remains a mystery. we all know modern life brings a battle of portion control. it seems art does imitate life. cornell university researchers found the main course increased by 70% over the past 1,000 years. the number of women having cesarean sections in the united states has reached a new high. the number has doubled over the last ten years with 1 in 3 women now having c-se...

>> mr. speaker, the whole nation desperately needs health care reform. no group of americans needs it more than women, who faces discrimination and insult at the hand of the broken status quo every single day. we all know that the current system allows insurance companies to deny coverage based on pre-existing conditions. i wonder how many of my colleagues realize that essentially being a woman is a pre-existing condition. pregnancy, for example, or c-sections can be deemed pre-existing conditio...

Price of what they are consuming. we dont have that currently. so we cant really discuss it. >> id like to bring in something on this issue of market mechanisms in health care. i think the american system is currently set up with market incentives as jeff was suggesting, that encourage doctors to do too much. and what i think americans do not fully appreciate is not only does that cost more money, but it can lead to worse outcomes and a very good example of that is childbirth. ive had a child no...

>> id like to bring in something on this issue of market mechanisms in health care. i think the american system is currently set up with market incentives as jeff was suggesting, that encourage doctors to do too much. and what i think americans do not fully appreciate is not only does that cost more money, but it can lead to worse outcomes and a very good example of that is childbirth. ive had a child now in toronto, london and new york and which was an interesting journalistic oddessye and in t...

>> women over 40 two and a half times at risk of maternal death shortly after childbirth. the other high risk -- i wont call them high risk, the numbers are pretty small, ill say at risk. african-american women experiencing death after childbirth because theyre so prone to hypertension and if its not treated, it leads to something called eclamsa, which is extremely high blood pressure and seizures. so, we want to make sure that women over 40, african-american women, and other women at risk get e...

Women have are also implicated in this. is that because of infection? >> infection is a risk and im going to talk about that. it may not be that the c-sections themselves are the cause because c-sections are increasing for a reason. women over 40, women with hypertension, women who are at risk have c-sections and the result is that it increases the risk of something like postsurgical infection. weve only got about 30 seconds. how to fix this, i know you brought along a kit that mothers can use. ...

Actually lose money themselves, if they do fewer ct scans and c-sections, they lose money, and it can be sometimes hard to convince a hospital to make less money. >> good stuff, thank you. americans falling deeper in debt while fighting cancer. >> i think everybody need to be able to know, if i get sick, i can go to the hospital. if i have a house, i wont lose my home. >> isnt this pretty simple? so, a schoolteacher shares her personal battle to keep her home after a tough fight with colon can...

>> no. >> reporter: so she saved everyone a little bit of money, huh? >> thats a good way to look at it, huh. >> oh, congrats. thats beautiful. so if its so simple in terms of cost-cutting measures at a hospital, how come a bunch of hospitals arent doing that? >> reporter: because you have to make a whole culture change. you have to tell obstetricians stop doing so many c-sections and obstetricians do so many c-sections for various reasons. different people have different accounts for those reas...

>> reporter: she was not born by c-section. >> nope. >> she saved everyone a little bit of money? >> thats a good way to look at it, huh? >> so elizabeth, is the chief quality officer there said, they are looking at that particular hospital for the best possible outcome at the lowest possible cause, seems like a common sense solution, why arent more hospitals doing it? >> this is actually in some ways a relatively difficult thing to do, you have to changele culture of your doctors and patients, ...